Word: icebergs
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...more than 350 new jet fighters to replace warplanes bought in the 1960s. France and the U.S. are battling fiercely for this sale because the eventual stakes are enormous. The consortium's purchase, involving an investment of at least $1.7 billion, is only the tip of a lucrative iceberg: a worldwide market for thousands of jets, spare parts and maintenance contracts worth more than $20 billion over the next decade...
...summer, there were no more UFW picketers outside A&P stores in the Boston area, and at least two of its branches in Cambridge were selling iceberg lettuce with the United Farmworkers seal on it. There was no formal agreement between A&P and the UFW, unlike its arrangements with Boston's four other major food chains, but UFW supporters regarded the outcome of their 15-month boycott of A&P as a victory...
...staggering 600 to 1. Less than 10% of the full professors on all U.S. campuses are women. "There are spotty examples of emerging women leaders," sums up Heather Booth, a civil rights activist from Illinois, "but it is not clear whether they are the tip of the iceberg...
...just an iceberg on stage--just the tip--a lot of personal and group agony is all behind the scenes and it's going to take much more of that kind of unseen work because we are striving to make Kuumbas an institution," declares Ingraham...
...growers will defect to the rival International Brotherhood of Teamsters when their contracts with the farm workers' union expire this spring, Chavez last week intensified the latest nationwide boycott of non-U.F.W.A. California table grapes that began last year. The boycott also extends to non-U.F.W.A. iceberg lettuce...